Media Services and Monitoring Unit

Directorate-General for Communication

Directorate for Media

Media Services and Monitoring Unit

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Directorate-General for Communication

Directorate for Media

Media Services and Monitoring Unit

Press seminar

Railway Package: Completing the single European railway area

Tuesday 6 and Wednesday 7 December 2016

Altiero Spinelli building

European Parliament, Brussels

Tuesday 6 December 2016 ▪ room ASP 5 E 2 ▪ Interpretation in DE, EN, ES, FR, IT

14:30 - 15:30 Arrival and registration

15:30 - 15:45 Opening and technical briefing

·  Ioannis DARMIS, Head of EP Media Services Unit

·  Costis YERARIS, Secretariat of the EP Committee on Transport and Tourism

15:45 - 16:15 European Commission

·  Matthew BALDWIN, Deputy Director General and acting Director for Land transport, Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport (DG MOVE), European Commission

16:15 - 17:30 Debate with experts (consumers, industry, environment, projects)

·  Libor LOCHMAN, Director Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER)

·  Ana MALHEIRO, Manager of Legal and Regulatory Affairs European Rail Infrastructure Managers (EIM)

·  Markus VAERST, Acting Secretary General European Rail Freight Association (ERFA)

·  Josef SCHNEIDER, Chairman of European Passenger Federation (EPF)

·  Jos DINGS, Executive Director Transport & Environment

·  Pierre DELALANDE, Head of Public Affairs, Eurostar

Moderator: Matthew Ledbury, transport writer

Wednesday 7 December 2016 ▪ room ASP 5 E 2 ▪ Interpretation in DE, EN, ES, FR, IT

09:00 - 09:30 Arrival

09:30 - 10:00 Regulation of the rail industry

·  Keynote speaker: Matthias FINGER, Transport Director, Florence School of Regulation, European University Institute

10:00 - 11:00 Debate with MEPs (technical pillar)

·  Michael CRAMER (Greens/EFA, DE), EP Rapporteur on "Railway safety"

·  Izaskun BILBAO BARANDICA (ALDE, ES), EP Rapporteur on "Interoperability of the rail system within the EU"

·  Roberts ZĪLE (ECR, LV), EP Rapporteur on "European Union Agency for Railways"

11:00 - 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 - 12:15 Debate with MEPs (market pillar)

·  Wim VAN DE CAMP (EPP, NL), EP Rapporteur on "Opening of the market for domestic passenger transport services by rail: award of public service contracts"

·  David-Maria SASSOLI (S&D, IT), EP Rapporteur on "Single European railway area: opening of the market for domestic passenger transport services by rail and governance of the railway infrastructure"

·  Merja KYLLÖNEN (GUE /NGL, FI), EP Rapporteur on "Common rules for the normalisation of the accounts of railway undertakings"

Moderator: Matthew Ledbury, transport writer

12:30 Cocktail reception

Contacts in the EP press service

Ioannis Darmis +32 498 98 32 69

Damián Castaño +32 498 98 33 35

Anne Brunet - Janja Gabersek +32 498 98 14 33

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